MGS Ventures — early-stage venture capital, Seed to Series A

MGS Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm backing founders building enterprise technology companies across India and MENA. We invest from Seed to Series A. Our first cheque is around USD 500K and does not change with the stage; we follow on in our winners. We can lead a round or co-invest alongside others. Offices in Mumbai, India and Walnut Creek, California.

Backing founders disrupting enterprise tech in the age of AI.

We are operators. We back founders, not just with capital.

MGS Ventures backs founders building category-defining companies at Seed to Series A stage - capital, conviction, and operator ethos from day one.

What we believe

Fifteen years ago, Andreessen Horowitz said software was eating the world. Today, AI is eating software — and changing how the work itself gets done. We back the builders of that reality, with operators who have lived it.

First cheque in

We lead pre-seed and seed rounds, often when the first revenue proves the enterprise fit. Conviction comes from the founder and the problem, not the deck.

Operator Partner-led

Every company works directly with a partner with deep operating experience in actually running and scaling enterprise tech businesses.

Wings to hi-flyers

We double down on our high-potential portfolio companies so capital is never the constraint on their growth.

Where we invest

Seven sectors we believe is ripe for disruption. Sector-agnostic within technology - but building for enterprise customers is where we can help.

Enterprise AI
Applied AI disrupting legacy workflows, creating new platforms, and unlocking real outcomes for enterprises.
HealthTech
Care delivery and preventive health, where clinical outcomes and unit economics both have to work.
Fintech
AI-native infrastructure and distribution catering to the next growth frontier of the BFSI space.
Infrastructure Technology
Horizontal tools and platforms for enterprise infra with a sharp wedge into a large market.
Deep Tech
TRL 8 onwards, targeting large TAM in enterprise.
Industrial AI
Software and robotics on the factory floor and supply chain, where downtime and defects have a price.
Cyber Security
Security for the post-AI world, where agents act on their own and the attacker has better models.

Geographies we invest in

Where we don’t invest

A clear no saves everyone time.

What we are NOT

Not a horizontal AI fund. Not consumer. And not backing technology for its own sake, without commercial adoption.

What we will NOT back

Sectors that gain from harm to people, the environment, or society (vice sectors, weapons, gambling, and private crypto among them).

Stages and cheque sizes

Seed to Series A. We lead rounds and co-invest alongside others. What changes between stages is the ownership our cheque buys, not the size of our commitment.

First cheque — stage agnostic: around USD 500K. We go beyond this when the round warrants it, and double down on portfolio winners with follow-on cheques.

Seed

Series A

How we work with founders

A short process, run by partners.

First call

Thirty minutes with a partner. You talk, we listen, and you leave knowing whether this is a fit.

Deep dive

We go into the product, tech, the market and the numbers with you - and tell you what we think as we go.

Decision

A yes or a clear no, with reasons and feedback.

MGS Ventures Runway

Earlier than the stages we support. Some companies do not exist yet. We start there too.

Incubation cheques for ideation, college and pre-seed teams. A first cheque, mentoring with high involvement, and the same partners you would meet at seed. Runway success: we incubated Protectt.ai in 2020 — a team and a conviction, before there was a product. Today it is an AI and behaviour-driven mobile app security platform defending critical banking, exchange and insurance apps. Having earned the trust of India’s enterprises, it is now taking that protection global. It has grown exponentially year over year and is backed by Bessemer Venture Partners and the Bajaj Group.

Frequently asked questions

What sectors do you invest in?

We are sector-agnostic within technology, with conviction concentrated in seven areas: enterprise AI, healthtech, fintech, infrastructure technology, deep tech, industrial AI, and cyber security. What matters more than the category is a founder solving a problem they understand better than anyone else.

What is your typical cheque size?

Our first cheque is around USD 500K, and it does not change with the stage — we write the same cheque at seed as at Series A. We follow on in our winners. We can lead a round or co-invest alongside others, and we will go beyond the range where the round warrants it.

At what stage of business do you invest in?

We invest from Seed to Series A, often at first revenue and sometimes before it. What we need to see is early proof that customers want what you have built - a working product, a handful of paying users, a founding team that has earned the right to solve this problem. We are comfortable being the first institutional cheque, and we reserve capital to keep backing you into later rounds.

Offices: Mumbai, India · Walnut Creek, California.

Contact: info@mgsventures.in · MGS Ventures on LinkedIn

BACKING FOUNDERS DISRUPTING ENTERPRISE TECH IN THE AGE OF AI
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MGS Ventures — early-stage venture capital

We are operators.
We back founders, not just with capital.

MGS Ventures backs founders building category-defining companies at Seed to Series A stage - capital, conviction, and operator ethos from day one.

Apply Meet the team
Our belief
Our belief

Fifteen years ago, Andreessen Horowitz said software was eating the world. Today, AI is eating software — and changing how the work itself gets done. We back the builders of that reality, with operators who have lived it.

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Where we invest

Seven sectors we believe is ripe for disruption.

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Geographies we invest in
India Primary
MENA Primary
Southeast Asia & USA Opportunistic
Where we don't invest

A clear no saves everyone time.

What we are NOT

  • Not a horizontal AI fund.
  • Not consumer.
  • And not backing technology for its own sake, without commercial adoption.

What we will NOT back

Sectors that gain from harm to people, the environment, or society (vice sectors, weapons, gambling, and private crypto among them).

How we work with founders

A short process, run by partners.

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Start your application
Stages and cheque sizes

Seed to Series A

We lead rounds and co-invest alongside others. What changes between stages is the ownership our cheque buys, not the size of our commitment.

First cheque — stage agnostic
AroundUSD 500 K

We go beyond this when the round warrants it, and double down on portfolio winners with follow-on cheques.

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Earlier than the stages we support

Some companies do not exist yet. We start there too.

Incubation cheques for ideation, college and pre-seed teams

A first cheque, mentoring with high involvement, and the same partners you would meet at seed.

See MGS Ventures Runway
RunwaySuccess
Protectt.ai

We incubated Protectt.ai in 2020 — a team and a conviction, before there was a product.

Today it is an AI and behaviour-driven mobile app security platform defending critical banking, exchange and insurance apps. Having earned the trust of India’s enterprises, it is now taking that protection global. It has grown exponentially year over year and is backed by Bessemer Venture Partners and the Bajaj Group.

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A partner from the first cheque.

MGS Ventures backs founders at the earliest and riskiest stage.
Drawing from our decades of experience in operating successful enterprise regulated tech businesses, we extend it to our portfolio companies to not just cross the 'valley of death' but emerge on the other side as category leaders. 

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Advisory board

Some decisions are better made by someone who has made them before. We bring in senior operators and specialists from across the globe, usually before the company knows it needs them.

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Earlier than the stages we support

Some companies do not exist yet. Runway is a platform that incubates teams in ideation, college and pre-seed stage and stays with them until the seed round is a real conversation.

RunwaySuccess

A cybersecurity company built in India, defending apps anywhere in the world.

That was the thesis in 2020. India was going mobile-first faster than anywhere on earth, and almost all of the software defending those apps was being written somewhere else. We wanted a homegrown company with genuinely global capability — the strength to sit on any shortlist, in any market. So we incubated one.

Protectt.ai
Incubated 2020 · Mobile app security
protectt.ai

Protectt.ai began at exactly the stage Runway is built for — a founding team and a conviction, before there was a product. We wrote the first cheque and stayed close: incubation, mentoring, go-to-market, hiring, customer introductions.

Today it is an AI and behaviour-driven mobile app security and fraud control platform protecting critical banking, exchange and insurance apps — runtime protection, device and SIM binding, code and API defence, and now security for AI models and agentic systems. Having earned the trust of India’s enterprises, it is now taking that protection global.

It has grown exponentially year over year and is backed today by Bessemer Venture Partners and the Bajaj Group.

2020
Year incubated
Idea
Stage at entry
Incubation, mentoring, GTM
Our role
Bessemer Venture Partners, Bajaj Group
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